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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 371841, member: 4626&quot;]Hard choice, but I&#039;d have to go with the 1991 Korean War commemorative silver dollar.&nbsp; It looks like they just picked the first design someone scribbled on a piece of paper and the obverse is ridiculously cluttered.&nbsp; The giant running up the mountain looks like he&#039;d crush the cardboard cutouts of ships if he slipped... the reverse with the decapitated eagle next to the map of Korea is none too artistic either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d probably get booed if I admitted that in my opinion the worst design on a circulating US coin are the&nbsp; Barber dimes/quarters/ half dollars.&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry but the androgynous figure wearing a smurf hat doesn&#039;t strike me as an especially appealing design.&nbsp; The ugly starved eagle on the back doesn&#039;t hep either.&nbsp; Wish they let Morgan design them instead (I&#039;ve seen patterns of his that would have been much better designs for these).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Susan B. Anthony dollar I can make allowances for...&nbsp;&nbsp; No disrespect to Susan B. Anthony, she had a lot of accomplishments worthy of honor, but she wasn&#039;t the most photogenic that&#039;s for sure...&nbsp; However I rate the Barber obverse as worse because the designer of the SBA couldn&#039;t help what Susan B. Anthony looked like and had to keep to historical accuracy for better or worse.&nbsp; The Barber &quot;woman&quot; was a purely abstract figure that Barber could have made look however he wanted, and he still made it look like that, so that gets a lower score in my book.&nbsp; Besides the SBA had a beautiful reverse (albeit the same as the Eisenhower dollar) while the Barbers had a sickly scrawny looking eagle that could have stood being fed a little better if it was meant to convey a majestic presence.&nbsp; (Nineteenth century art style is no excuse either... the eagles on the Morgan dollars predated this and still managed to look more realistic and majestic and not like a 5 year old&#039;s doodling.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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